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The sum of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism,…The summe of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism,…
The sum of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism, and then afterwards more enlarged by a sound and judicious exposition, and application of the same : wherein also are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are controversed in divinity / first Englished by D. Henry Parry, and now again conferred with the best and last Latin edition of D. David Pareus, sometimes Professor of Divinity in Heidelberg ; whereunto is added a large and full alphabetical table of such matters as are therein contained ; together with all the Scriptures that are occasionally handled, by way either of controversy, exposition, or reconciliation, neither of which was done before, but now is performed for the readers delight and benefit ; to this work of Ursinus are now at last annexed the Theological miscellanies of D. David Pareus in which the orthodoxall tenets are briefly and solidly confirmed, and the contrary errors of the Papists, Ubiquitaries, Antitrinitaries, Eutychians, Socinians, and Arminians fully refuted ; and now translated into English out of the original Latin copy by A.R.The summe of Christian religion, delivered by Zacharias Ursinus first, by way of catechism, and then afterwards more enlarged by a sound and judicious exposition, and application of the same : wherein also are debated and resolved the questions of whatsoever points of moment have been, or are controversed in divinitie / first Englished by D. Henry Parry, and now again conferred with the best and last Latine edition of D. David Pareus, sometimes Professour of Divinity in Heidelberge ; whereunto is added a large and full alphabeticall table of such matters as are therein contained ; together with all the Scriptures that are occasionally handled, by way either of controversie, exposition, or reconciliation, neither of which was done before, but now is performed for the readers delight and benefit ; to this work of Ursinus are now at last annexed the Theologicall miscellanies of D. David Pareus in which the orthodoxall tenets are briefly and solidly confirmed, and the contrary errours of the Papists, Ubiquitaries, Antitrinitaries, Eutychians, Socinians, and Arminians fully refuted ; and now translated into English out of the originall Latine copie by A.R.
London: printed by James Young, 1645
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1God created the world and all things therein most freely, without any constraint, not by any absolute necessity, but by necessity of consequence, that is, by the decree of his will; which decree, though it were eternal and unchangeable, yet was it most free: For neither was God tied to the creatures, and sustaining of things: neither if he had not at all created the world, or did annihilate it being created, and bring it to nothing, were he therefore less good, or less happy.
1God created the world and all things therein most freely, without any constraint, not by any absolute necessity, but by necessity of consequence, that is, by the decree of his will; which decree, though it were eternall and unchangeable, yet was it most free: For neither was God tied to the creatures, and sustaining of things: neither if hee had not at all created the world, or did annihilate it being created, and bring it to nothing, were hee therefore lesse good, or lesse happy.
- 1Most freely without constraint.
1God made the world with his beck only, word, or will, without labour, wearisomeness, motion, or any change of himself, that is, not by any new action of his; but by his forcible will only, which from everlasting would that things should on a sudden exist and be, at such a time as he had freely appointed and decreed:2 The Lord hath created the ends of the earth; he neither fainteth nor is weary. Now to work any thing with his beck and word only, and without labour, is the highest and chiefest manner of working. For there are five kinds of operations and agents.3